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July 14, 2008

The dog so big he can be seen from space

Trust me, that's him -- the big blob there next to the circular walkway: "Boris, the dog so big he can be seen from space."

Or so the Bull Mastiff has been touted ever since the brother-in-law of Fran Milner, whose family owns the Tudor Grange Hotel in the United Kingdom, was Google-earthing one day and came across what he thinks is the hotel's resident hound, laying on the grass by the sundial.

That's Boris' favorite spot to sprawl after snarfing up breakfast leftovers, and the hotel owners have no doubt that the not so distinctive lump in the satellite mapping images is him.

Boris, thanks in part to handouts from guests at the hotel in Dorset, tips the scales at 200 pounds.

Boris has since become somewhat of a celebrity in the quiet holiday resort town, with hotel guests eager to have their pictures snapped with the dog, according to an article in The Tech Herald.

(Photo/Google Earth)

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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